“ Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without… Don DeLillo
“ Is there a fungus that speaks to you? I'm serious. People hear things. They hear God.He meant it. He was serious. He wanted to mean it, to hear anything the man might say, the wholeshapeless narrative… Don DeLillo
“ In the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beg… Don DeLillo
“ In other words if I give up now I’ll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future. That’s it exactly, Gary. I’m giving up, I said. Don DeLillo
“ I see my son in the small tumult of the moment. He knows he has to handle this alone and does it conscientiously enough, shaking the man’s hand, nodding madly. He is not experienced at hearty rapport,… Don DeLillo
“ I move past the scaffolding and walk down the steps, hearing one language after another, rich, harsh, mysterious, strong. This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams.… Don DeLillo
“ How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body? Don DeLillo
“ History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experien… Don DeLillo
“ He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. I’m counting on you to tell me, Jack. Tell you what? You’re the only person I know that’s educated enough to give me the answer. The answer to what? Were… Don DeLillo
“ He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems t… Don DeLillo
“ He drank, gambled, drove his car down embankments, got fired, quit, retired, traveled in disguise to Coaltown where he paid a woman to speak Swedish to him as they screwed. It was the Swedish that enr… Don DeLillo
“ For five straight days she drove out to the point, the headland, because the standing gulls that look a little dumpy on stilt legs become in their flight the slant carriers of all this rockbound time,… Don DeLillo
“ Everything that has happened drives me in that direction, theoretically. But I don’t feel reduced by my abstinence, as I did in the past. The craving is gone and maybe this is what reduces me. • Don DeLillo
“ Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) Don DeLillo
“ Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the… Don DeLillo
“ Baseball’s oh so simple. You tag a man, he’s out. How different from being it. What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past th… Don DeLillo
